Word: punish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department criticism of the handling of the recent harassment case involving two Government professors. In that case, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky found a senior male Government professor guilty of sexually harassing a junior member in the department, but did not disclose what action he had taken to punish the harasser. Some department members have criticized the lack of publicity...
Indeed, libel verdicts have become a telling measure of public eagerness to punish the press. According to Stanford University Law Professor Marc Franklin, since 1976 nearly 85% of 106 major libel verdicts by juries have been defeats for journalist defendants, and almost two dozen involved damage awards of more than $1 million. "Juries are the American people," says Eugene Patterson, editor of the St. Petersburg Times. "They want to punish us." The Supreme Court may share some of the mistrust. Since 1972, it has ruled against journalist defendants in all four libel appeals it has heard...
...government for an account of my actions. No witnesses were called, no testimony taken, no jury convened. Instead, I was refused all federal financial aid because I declined to return the registration compliance form sent to me by the financial aid office. The United States found a way to punish me anyway, when its constitutionally established procedures proved too cumbersome to deal with massive resistance...
Kontas said that Solomon Amendment has become the primary method the federal government is using to punish non-registrants due to the paucity of Justice Department prosecutions. Only 16 non-registrants have been indicted in the last two years...
...HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN Marines were murdered in their sleep in Beirut yesterday, and the dominant feeling in this country is a combination of sadness, anger and frustration. Washington cannot punish the aggressors--we do not know for sure who they are and even if we did, the risk inherent in retaliation of involving American forces in a full-scale conflict is too great. And short of withdrawing the Marines, there isn't much Washington can do to protect the remainder of the contingent...